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DIMAR Leader: Party MPs Voting for President are not Apostates

Any Democratic Left (DIMAR) MP to vote for the President of the Hellenic Republic in the upcoming Parliament ballots will not be considered an apostate or a venal, party leader Fotis Kouvelis declared earlier today during an interview to Greek...

SYRIZA and DIMAR Leaders' Meeting Sparks Collaboration Rumors

The meeting between SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis sparked rumors that the two Greek opposition parties will collaborate in the snap general elections. According to a report in Greek newspaper "Efimerida ton Syntakton," talks...

DIMAR Leader: Will not Vote for President of Republic

"Democratic Left (DIMAR) deputies have pledged that they will not vote for Greece 's President of Republic in the current parliament, because the implemented policy does not offer the conditions of a consensual procedure," the party's leader Fotis Kouvelis...

DIMAR Leader: Extension of the Memorandum Equals Continuation of Recession

In a written statement, Democratic Left (DIMAR) President Fotis Kouvelis criticized the Greek government for mishandling the Troika negotiations. The former coalition government partner warned that a possible extension of the Memorandum equals with the continuation of the recession...

Poll: SYRIZA Leads with 4.8% Over New Democracy in Voting Intention

Greek main opposition party SYRIZA leads by 4.8% over ruling New Democracy (ND) in voting intention if general elections were held now, according to a weekly opinion poll conducted by Metron Analysis, which was published in "Parapolitika" newspaper on Saturday. According to...

DIMAR Leader Kouvelis Meets President Papoulias

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias received Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis earlier today, for the last of a series of meetings he held with political leaders that began yesterday with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and main...

Kouvelis Re-elected President of DIMAR

  Fotis Kouvelis was re-elected president of Democratic Left (DIMAR) at the party's congress on Sunday with 68.34% of the vote, receiving 503 out of a total of 745 votes. Rival candidate Dimitris Loukas received 155 votes or 21.01% of votes...

SYRIZA Leads Over New Democracy in Poll

According to a recent poll conducted by the University of Macedonia on behalf of SKAI television in Greece, opposition party SYRIZA is leading over New Democracy by six points. The poll was conducted on September 11-15 and shows that, in terms of voting...

Democratic Left Party Loses Three MPs

Earlier today, Democratic Left (DIMAR) party leader Fotis Kouvelis informed the President of the Greek Parliament, Evangelos Meimarakis, of his decision to expel Grigoris Psarianos from the party’s parliamentary group.  DIMAR party spokesman, Andreas Papadopoulos has expressed, in a letter sent...

DIMAR Leader Hands in his Resignation to the Party's Central Committee

Greece 's Democratic Left (DIMAR) leader Fotis Kouvelis handed in his resignation to the party's Central Committee that convenes on Saturday under the shadow of the heavy defeat in the euroelections and asked from all the party members to...